Cos we are too old to go out pubbing and clubbing the night before.
You are right though. As a postman, when we did two deliveries years back, you could always guarantee the old ones would be up and about and not in bed if you had anything to sign or give them.
On a personal level, (and I am oldish) I am so used to getting up early, for me a lie in is until 7.
cos you tend to sleep less when your older and go to bed earlier and unlike the lazy dole scroungeing kids of today not all of them but some old people had worth ethic and got up early to do an honest days graft
It is true that you need less sleep as you get older, but it is also great especially when the mornings are light to feel that you are the only person on the planet.
You soon however come back to reality, as you realise that
you are actually part of a world, run in the main by scumbags,for the benefit of lots of other scumbags
Because they still believe they can hear the cries of the ARP and the ominous droning of jitterbugs falling out of the cold steel-grey skies over Bethnal Green.
Probably because the new Criminal Record Bureau vetting process means that all newsagents have to have a CRB certificate to employ children under the age of 16 as paper boys/girls so they will stop delivering papers to anybody, and pensioners will have to hobble down to the newsagents on their zimmer frames to get a paper in future.